When She Stops Playing Nice

Chapter 10

After pocketing the bank card, Gina glanced at Mason, who was lurking behind Ethan. She signaled. “Bring him here.”

Fuming, Ethan, blaming Mason for his humiliation, grabbed him and threw him in front of Gina.

Gina flexed her wrist and landed a punch on Mason’s trembling face, causing his teeth to rattle and sending him crashing to the ground, his world going dark.

With her foot pressing down on Mason’s face, Gina demanded, “Delete the post, clear my name, and apologize.”

Tears and snot running down his face, Mason blubbered. Tll delete it. Please, get off me. I’m sorry, I screwed up, I’m the

Worst

Aria scoffed. “Suddenly all apologetic, huh? Thought you were Mr. Tough Guy.”

While sobbing. Mason scrambled to access the campus network on his phone, deleted the defamatory post, and published an apology under his real name.

Aria commented on the post right away. [All fluff, no stuff. Seriously, who buys this trashy gossip?]

Some recognized Aria’s account and, looking to curry favor or genuinely outraged, slammed the original post for spreading

Tumors.

Yet, others sensed something off about Mason’s apology, speculating he might have been threatened. But it was hard to imagine who would bother defending Gina, notorious as she was.

The apology stirred less buzz than the original rumor, but Gina wasn’t bothered. She knew many didn’t care for the truth; they just relished the chance to stomp on her a bit more.

The whole mess killed Ethan’s mood for drinking, prompting him to leave.

farewell and returned

million dollars

Orphanage and the rest to build schools in impoverished areas,”

the care of a kind–hearted director who often dipped into his own pockets to keep it

“Understood,” Michael responded.

the way, Gina, seems like someone else is digging into that massacre,” he

raised an

a son. The couple was good to her, but the son was standoffish, wary

even considering going back to the orphanage. Before she could act on it, tragedy struck: the couple was found dead, their family

them.

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mystery, and Gina was determined to find the killer. And she was not the only one who was still

it be their biological

had attempted to track down the boy before, only

The murder

matter what, I’ll find them and tear them to pieces, Gina

out some feelers, and see if they take the bait. She instructed Michael, keen on unmasking the

named “Neil” on WhatsApp. [Done with the last batch of potion? I’ve

How about you come over for dinner

Rather than giving out her address, she sent him

Neil replied: [Deal!]

bus stop when a Maybach slowly pulled

Gina

to pick you up. Please, after you, the driver

car, bringing along two jars